Kaguya -- This Is One Kick-Ass Japanese Lunar Probe!

[jordan179]

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070912_techwed_kaguyamoon.html

This is three tons and carries every kind of instrument to suit a Lunar geologist's fondest dreams. Highlights:

The 6,000-pound (2,271-kilogram) Kaguya spacecraft is a nearly

Comments

[eric_hinkle]

Just you wait, we'll all be sorry when that thing ticks off the Lunarians so much they sic King Ghidorah on us.

[jordan179]

Yeah, but on the plus side we'll have the neato-keen wheel-shaped space stations, and the fleet of rockets whose exhausts inexplicably flare "upward" instead of out, and the American-Japanese joint crews who date each other's sisters ... :)

[winterlion]

So cool!

I'd love to work on a project like that :)